Amazon’s iRobot has been recording its customers, including on the toilet:
iRobot—the world’s largest vendor of robotic vacuums, which Amazon recently acquired for $1.7 billion in a pending deal—confirmed that these images were captured by its Roombas in 2020. All of them came from “special development robots with hardware and software modifications that are not and never were present on iRobot consumer products for purchase,” the company said in a statement. They were given to “paid collectors and employees” who signed written agreements acknowledging that they were sending data streams, including video, back to the company for training purposes.
Anyway, those videos were then posted to Facebook by gig workers in Venezuela. Congrats on your luxury surveillance apparatus!
[MIT Technology Review]








